Lunar Distance

Lunar distance may refer to:

  • Lunar distance (astronomy), the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
  • Lunar distance (navigation), a measurement used in the calculation of longitude.


Famous quotes containing the words lunar and/or distance:

    A bird half wakened in the lunar noon
    Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    And then he heard some old forgotten talk
    At a short distance like a hundred miles
    Filling the air with its secrecy,
    And was afraid of all the living air....
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)